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windsor tower fire poses some questions

stuart | 13.02.2005 21:45 | Globalisation

The fire at Madrid's highest skyscraper the Windsor Tower which started on Saturday night and raged through the morning and has just been extinguished, has for some reason not been reported in the mainstream British press.

But it poses serious questions for accountants, and naturally architects.

windsor tower Sunday morning Feb 13 2005
windsor tower Sunday morning Feb 13 2005


The global entity Deloite which specialises in financial advice, accountancy and tax returns occupied most of the Windsor Tower in the ASCA region of Madrid.

Do we need more accountants?
exactly what do accountants do?

and are Towers such as the Windsor Tower
a 32º block, constructed from sufficiently
crafted architecture that they may survive
such Acts of God as a short circuit?


 http://elmundodinero.elmundo.es/mundodinero/2005/02/13/Noti20050213172218.html
 http://www.lagaceta.com.ar/vernota.asp?id_nota=104099
 http://iblnews.com/news/noticia.php3?id=124297
 http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2005/02/13/madrid/1108301089.html

stuart

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coverage

14.02.2005 01:09

it was on uk terrestrial tv news last night

plus see:

Office inferno forces Madrid shutdown
Independent, UK - 40 minutes ago
By Elizabeth Nash in Madrid. A blaze that devoured one of Madrid's largest buildings was still burning out of control last night...
 http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=610863

Collapse Threatens Skyscraper in Madrid
Guardian, UK - 2 hours ago
By ED MCCULLOUGH. MADRID, Spain (AP) - Firefighters struggled for nearly 24 hours before finally controlling Madrid's worst blaze...
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4797884,00.html

loads more coverage - telegraph, bbc etc




it's there


it might have been there... but was the significance understood?

14.02.2005 22:15

or does it have to be spellt out in GCSE standard english?

stuart


Independent and uninformed

16.02.2005 01:21

Windsor Tower was the eighth-tallest building in Madrid, not the tallest. Blame the coverage in your media for your mistake.

Antonio
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